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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: Christmas 1981

« Last post by Top Speed on December 27 2025, 09:40:13 AM »

I had a friend whose parents would get him all of those latest game consoles starting with Atari, etc.  My parents wouldn't pay for it. 

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: Christmas 1981

« Last post by Be4u on December 25 2025, 03:52:31 AM »

Wow Atari was expensive!

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: Christmas 1981

« Last post by Steve Wood on December 24 2025, 09:09:56 AM »

Pong did not have much shelf life, thankfully.

It did not take long for things to heat up, though.

A bunch of consoles and Apples soon came out and we soon had get together on the week end to play.  Life was simple. I used to get really frustrated playing Zork.  Those damn word games drove me crazy.

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: Christmas 1981

« Last post by ULYCYC on December 24 2025, 08:06:52 AM »

I remember maybe 1970 my parents getting my two younger brothers  a Magnavox pong game console for the only TV in the house.  That was WW3 after a few weeks, back in the box sent to the basement.

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: Christmas 1981

« Last post by Steve Wood on December 23 2025, 10:06:07 PM »

Atari and Space Invaders!  Life was good !

Amazing how much fun we had with 8 bit graphics and arcade type games.

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IHADAV8 Playground / Re: Christmas 1981

« Last post by Scoobum on December 23 2025, 10:53:08 AM »

What Christmas use to be 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG1gu8SgmAk&list=RDaG1gu8SgmAk&start_radio=1

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IHADAV8 Playground / Christmas 1981

« Last post by Scoobum on December 23 2025, 10:11:34 AM »

I need a time machine to take me back there 

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General Auto Tech / Re: Project WTF White Trash Fox

« Last post by fastNfurious on October 20 2025, 08:55:52 AM »

An 18–20' open dovetail with twin 5k axles is a solid spec. I'd check the brakes on both axles and a 2-5/16" coupler and see if theres proportional controller

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A/C, Heating and Cooling / Re: AC Clutch not engaging 85 Hot Air

« Last post by Steve Wood on October 15 2025, 01:34:30 PM »

Not sure hot air vs ice but here's what I have

https://vortexbuicks-etc.com/ac_compressor_electrics.htm

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A/C, Heating and Cooling / Re: AC Clutch not engaging 85 Hot Air

« Last post by TexasT on October 15 2025, 09:51:36 AM »

Sounds like you are doing everything I would try. So, the clutch pulls in and the compressor compresses with the 12v to the clutch if I'm reading right. Does it make pressure  on your gauges? Then does it drop the clutch when the pressure comes up denoting the pressure switch is doing its thing?

You need a wiring diagram so you can follow  and see about what makes that ccc thing go.  One bad resistor or even a cracked solder joint can put it into intermittent or worse.

Good luck. You might try the gnttype place for wiring diagrams or maybe steves site.

I knida gave up on the big board as they put in a bunch of popup things and I just don't want to deal with all that.